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A teen charged with a hate crime in Oak Park told investigators he beat his victim in anger over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, according to the Cook County state's attorney office. Alton L. Hayes, 18, of the 1200 block of Woodbine Avenue in Oak Park, was charged with attempted robbery and aggravated battery along with a hate crime, state's attorney spokesman Andy Conklin said Wednesday. A 15-year-old Chicago boy also was charged with attempted robbery in the incident. Police said the charged teens are black and the victim is white.

Police are looking for a 13-year-old boy missing from the area of Augusta Boulevard and Marshfield Avenue, near Ashland Avenue, on the city's near Northwest Side. Roiale Thomas is 5-foot-1 and weighs about 100 pounds, according to police. He has a 3-inch scar on the right side of his face. Police said he may be in the area of 4900 South Cottage Grove Avenue or 4900 West Gladys Avenue. Police are asking anyone with information about Thomas to call Central Area detectives at (312)

We don't know whether a 15-year-old Chicago boy purposely included gang signs in his design for Chicago's vehicle sticker. First-year City Clerk Susana Mendoza doesn't know either. Faced with an unfolding embarrassment and a herd of inquisitive news reporters, Mendoza made a rookie mistake: She hurriedly ditched the boy's design. She did that without taking time to talk to the boy, or to personally sort out conflicting accounts, or to reflect for a few days on what her decision would mean to a boy who had been praised a few days earlier as a Chicago success story.

You could make a case that the late Milton Friedman, who taught at the University of Chicago for more than 30 years, was the most internationally influential of Hyde Park's many illustrious residents - current occupants of the White House aside. The famed, Nobel Prize-winning proponent of the monetarist school of economics was a key architect of so-called Reaganomics, and was revered by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her key macroeconomic advisers. He was talking about school vouchers as early as 1955, a debate that still roils today.

— Three years ago, Chicagoan Alex Roman was a chubby third-grader who couldn't get enough of video games. But he's a couch potato no more. Alex, 12, was honored at the White House on Monday as first lady Michelle Obama applauded 1,273 schools that have joined the HealthierUS School Challenge. One is Alex's Walsh Elementary School in the Pilsen neighborhood. Schools qualify for the program, run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, by serving more-nutritious foods, teaching students about nutrition and promoting physical activity.

The City Council Finance Committee today approved paying $6.5 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from the death of an 8-year-old boy and the injury of an 11-year-old girl who were hit by an unmarked police car seven years ago. Gregory Jones, 8, and Datondra Mitchell, 11, were crossing Grand Avenue, near Kildare Avenue, in May 2004 when they were hit by the police car. Jones died two days later, Mitchell suffered a fractured skull and lost her...

An 11-year-old boy from Chicago drowned Tuesday night in a river in far southwest Iowa has been identified, officials said today. The boy, who was identified this afternoon as Deontae Haynes, drowned in the Nodaway River in Clarinda, according to a press release by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. A 16-year-old girl, Tamra Haley of Clarinda, who had tried to save the boy was at Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, officials said. The incident happened a little before 9 p.m. as five people between the ages of nine and 20 were swimming below a dam on the Nodaway River, officials said.

A Chicago teenager who police said killed another teen from Chicago during a fight at an Indiana beach turned himself in Thursday to authorities in LaPorte County, Ind., officials said. Kevin Kennelly, 17, was pronounced dead shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Anthony Hospital in Crown Point, according to a statement from Long Beach police Chief Marshal Robert Sulkowski. Kennelly was a student at Mount Carmel High School on Chicago's South Side and was from the Beverly neighborhood.

While studying for a career in broadcasting, Nick Charles drove a taxi through Chicago's darkened streets. As a cabbie, Mr. Charles would talk to his fares sitting in the backseat and ask them about their lives, said Fred Hickman, a longtime friend and colleague. That propensity for curiosity translated to Mr. Charles' work -- he went on to become a renowned CNN sportscaster. Mr. Charles, 64, died Saturday, June 25, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a two-year battle with stage-four bladder cancer, his family said.

Records through Thursday; last week's ranking in parentheses. 1. Simeon 9-0 (1) Won Pontiac, but did Wolverines lose aura of invincibility? 2. De La Salle 11-0 (2) Won a tournament in Milwaukee. 3. Benet (14-0) (4) Displayed mental and physical toughness in rallying to beat H-F in Proviso final. 4. Young 6-3 (6) Majority of games have been against out-of-state teams. 5. Warren 10-2 (17) Trailed by 1 at half, made huge statement in 58-50 loss to Simeon.